<!-- Creator : groff version 1.18.1 --><!-- CreationDate: Mon Mar 13 18:03:08 2006 --><html><head><meta name="generator" content="groff -Thtml, see www.gnu.org"><meta name="Content-Style" content="text/css"><title>MEMORY</title></head><body><h1 align=center>MEMORY</h1><a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br><a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br><a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br><a href="#DIAGNOSTICS">DIAGNOSTICS</a><br><a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br><hr><a name="NAME"></a><h2>NAME</h2><!-- INDENTATION --><table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr valign="top" align="left"><td width="8%"></td><td width="91%"><p>_TIFFmalloc, _TIFFrealloc, _TIFFfree, _TIFFmemset,_TIFFmemcpy, _TIFFmemcmp, − memory management-relatedfunctions for use with <small>TIFF</small> files</p></td></table><a name="SYNOPSIS"></a><h2>SYNOPSIS</h2><!-- INDENTATION --><table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr valign="top" align="left"><td width="8%"></td><td width="91%"><p><b>#include <tiffio.h></b></p><!-- INDENTATION --><p><b>tdata_t _TIFFmalloc(tsize_t</b> <i>size</i><b>);<br>tdata_t _TIFFrealloc(tdata_t</b> <i>buffer</i><b>,tsize_t</b> <i>size</i><b>);<br>void _TIFFfree(tdata_t</b> <i>buffer</i><b>);<br>void _TIFFmemset(tdata_t</b> <i>s</i><b>, int</b><i>c</i><b>, tsize_t</b> <i>n</i><b>);<br>void _TIFFmemcpy(tdata_t</b> <i>dest</i><b>, consttdata_t</b> <i>src</i><b>, tsize_t</b> <i>n</i><b>);<br>int _TIFFmemcmp(const tdata_t</b> <i>s1</i><b>, consttdata_t</b> <i>s2</i><b>, tsize_t</b> <i>n</i><b>);</b></p></td></table><a name="DESCRIPTION"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><!-- INDENTATION --><table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr valign="top" align="left"><td width="8%"></td><td width="91%"><p>These routines are provided for writing portable softwarethat uses <i>libtiff</i>; they hide any memory-managementrelated issues, such as dealing with segmented architecturesfound on 16-bit machines.</p><!-- INDENTATION --><p><i>_TIFFmalloc</i> and <i>_TIFFrealloc</i> are used todynamically allocate and reallocate memory used by<i>libtiff</i>; such as memory passed into the I/O routines.Memory allocated through these interfaces is released backto the system using the <i>_TIFFfree</i> routine.</p><!-- INDENTATION --><p>Memory allocated through one of the above interfaces canbe set to a known value using <i>_TIFFmemset</i>, copied toanother memory location using <i>_TIFFmemcpy</i>, orcompared for equality using <i>_TIFFmemcmp</i>. Theseroutines conform to the equivalent <small>ANSI</small> Croutines: <i>memset</i>, <i>memcpy</i>, and <i>memcmp</i>,repsectively.</p></td></table><a name="DIAGNOSTICS"></a><h2>DIAGNOSTICS</h2><!-- INDENTATION --><table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr valign="top" align="left"><td width="8%"></td><td width="91%"><p>None.</p></td></table><a name="SEE ALSO"></a><h2>SEE ALSO</h2><!-- INDENTATION --><table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr valign="top" align="left"><td width="8%"></td><td width="91%"><p><b>malloc</b>(3), <b>memory</b>(3),<b>libtiff</b>(3TIFF)</p><!-- INDENTATION --><p>Libtiff library home page:<b>http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/</b></p></td></table><hr></body></html>